Mastery through Love
“Mastery through Love—the Relinquishment of Fear” Online Retreat—Mastery through Love
David hosts a powerful session, with Q&A, exploring the theme of “mastery through love” (T-2.VII.4:4) and asking the question: if this world is a distraction device, how do we think we could ever understand anything?
Gold Nugget:
“The leaping-off point of the real world and forgiveness, ‘Heaven is the decision I must make.’ W-138 I will accept the Atonement for myself; you know, it’s clearly, forgiveness is a decision in the mind. But it’s a decision unlike any other decision, because it’s not a decision between forms. It’s a decision of purpose, going from fear and guilt and hatred and shame, to love as your motive. So to help clarify this for you, Tina, what I’m sharing with you right now is that the more you turn purely to guidance, not trying, not guidance to try to solve a specific problem, as you believe it is like an economic problem or a dependency on an ex-husband problem. Because if you have already defined the problem, and you’re trying to do something in form, specifically, to overcome a problem that you’ve defined already in form, that is a prime example of mastery through fear. Mastery through love is, being so prayerful, so clueless that the guidance can start to drop, and you may be inspired in all kinds of ways from these guidances.
But the difference of the Holy Spirit’s guidance is this: the Spirit knows that it’s a way to unwind your mind from that self-concept, not to reinforce the self-concept as being real. In other words, mastery of fear is acknowledging the fear is real and then trying to do something to get rid of it or do something to solve it. That is not mastery through love. Love doesn’t see a problem. You have to remember that love is so expansive, and the Holy Spirit doesn’t see a problem, and Christ’s vision doesn’t see a problem. And remember, the Holy Spirit, Christ’s vision, the real world, the happy dream, that is the solution, that guidance is taking you towards that happy dream is the solution!”
Recorded at the Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat – Mastery through Love—the Relinquishment of Fear on June 7, 2019
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